Principal Platform Engineer - Integrations
Baker Tilly1 day ago
Portland, OR, USA +7 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain scalable event-driven integration frameworks using publish/subscribe interfaces, webhooks, APIs, and Model Context Protocol endpoints.
- Define and enforce vendor-facing integration specifications, requirements, acceptance criteria, interoperability standards, and portability expectations.
- Translate technical integration standards into measurable vendor contract commitments covering data ownership, decision traces, export rights, and portability.
- Build and operate data-ingestion and telemetry pipelines capturing AI-agent decision traces, lineage, activity data, and operational telemetry.
- Implement identity management, authentication, authorization, entitlements, permissible-use controls, and secure integration boundaries.
- Develop shared platform services such as gateways, runtime capabilities, and reusable infrastructure for the AI ecosystem.
- Establish observability, monitoring, testing, incident-management, and rollback capabilities for production integrations.
- Coordinate technical integration development, validation, troubleshooting, and acceptance testing with external engineering teams.
- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, data platform, procurement, legal, vendor, MLOps, and global engineering teams.
- Support strategic AI platform initiatives and other assigned projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in platform engineering, systems integration, or related software engineering disciplines is required.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production-scale event-driven integration architectures, including publish/subscribe messaging, webhooks, API platforms, and distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on programming experience with Python and/or TypeScript, including recent production-quality development, testing, and maintenance.
- Experience developing vendor-facing technical specifications, integration standards, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Deep understanding of API design, versioning, contract testing, integration patterns, and Model Context Protocol.
- Experience implementing identity management, authentication, authorization, entitlements, and permissible-use controls in enterprise integration environments.
- Experience building telemetry, event-processing, and data-ingestion pipelines integrated with enterprise data platforms such as Databricks or comparable lakehouse technologies.
- Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, incident management, and rollback strategies.
- Experience designing architectures supporting vendor portability, system interoperability, data ownership, and replacement of third-party components.
- Strong troubleshooting, technical problem-solving, communication, documentation, collaboration, prioritization, and independent execution skills.
- Experience coordinating work with globally distributed engineering teams and external technology vendors.
- Proficiency using AI-assisted and agentic development tools to improve engineering productivity and solution quality.
- No professional certifications or licenses are required.
Benefits
- Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
- The posting lists a national pay rate range of $200,000–$350,000 and the same range in California.
- Work location requirements should be discussed with a Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional.
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About Baker Tilly
Baker Tilly provides audit/assurance, tax, and advisory services—including analytics, governance risk and compliance, and government contracting—to companies, public sector entities, and nonprofits. Headquartered in Chicago and organized as a partnership, it operates coast to coast in the U.S. and is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, with U.S. attest services delivered by Baker Tilly US, LLP and tax and advisory by Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP.